Ep. 268 - Slime Challenges Ludwig

dude someone tried to tell me john williams was dead he's my makeup artist oh really at the thing because we talked about venmo and i was talking about how my name is john williams and she's like oh my god he died i'm like no he didn't she's like yes he did 100 he is dead that's crazy and i went i went a hundred because you can check i can check i was like is it any less than there's no wiggle room because 100 is zero wiggle room and she was 99.999 okay okay okay and i wasn't gonna look it up because i knew he was alive because i would know if he died because i named my shit after him i like him you are kind of soulful at this point so i was like i was like i don't know i just kept saying i don't know anytime she says shit she'd be like yeah i know it because two years ago my dad he's a huge fan he was really sad when he died i goes i don't know and she googles it he's fucking alive okay so what did her face look like when she googled it she was it humiliation she she it's funny because she bought tickets to a john williams tribute concert that's happening at the hollywood bowl it happened last week so i think it changed that experience for her i want to know what she what her face looked like when she looked it up and you were there right there in front um i i think that's the that's the moment i i think you i think it was a quick it was like oh okay oh you're right it wasn't like she didn't fucking soy jack of course back from the dead i feel like you should i don't or i am john i am back from that she didn't do all that she didn't do that there's a much subtler like whoa wow okay all right i was wrong needs context hat context wearing the context context wearing it needs context but i was on my phone yeah it wasn't for you you were essentially gone you're essentially out of the room i said not present it was like i was late it was like i was the third person in the room yeah it wasn't for you too i was at the mogul boulangerie the mogul boulangerie getting some denims dude i gotta say it and i'll and i'll be brave enough to say it all right vivette dog walking you and imagine this can you dream with me let me dream and look wait can i say some shit real quick please he didn't even know what vivette was yeah yeah wait i'm sorry it's like so it's like so sad it's sad that you have that is a good word you have to you have to just be like dude let me show you you know you can't even make fun of him because like how are you that deep what sucks is that you run the merch side of my company it's like the head of motorola not knowing about apple and it's like bro how is our flip phone supposed to compete get a blindsided at the steve jobs thing what the fuck is that it's straight up blackberry it is you are the canadian guy who refuses to adapt to the much bigger larger entity coming in with the touch screen we have a keyboard on our phone is this if i can respectfully ask is this like earlier where you're talking about me and i can't say anything or is it no no no you can speak this is which was also funny because a meeting was taking place with christian yingling which who are ludwig's uh slaves and yeah and they were talking about aiden's schedule aiden is at his desk 10 feet away and he's like wait i am available that day and they're like dude we're not talking it was crazy it was earnest i walked in the fucking warehouse and it was all chill and you know it gives me a nod i don't see christian and then i sit down and they sat down within seconds that was cool and i was like i was like this has been planned dude they before you got here i came in and the first thing i heard was christian i mean he's not even here yet so like they were literally plotting your arrival dude and christian's shirt's crazy wrinkly yeah man oh that's why you call them wrinkles i thought you're making fun of his age anyway dream with me guys i walk into caesar's palace yeah have to tone vivette all right you were in the heels uh i'm in the boots yeah okay the boots we go and i have the currently prototyped unreleased vivette crossbody oh my god he's got the vivette wait is that unfindable vivette and he looks fucking god stealing tonight and it's playing over the shit and i ordered a gin and tonic okay and i got it and i got the little stuff on the house you look so good you tried to order one they just handed you one and i sucked the whole thing down immediately it was just i'm very anxious and so i go to high roller room blackjack right take out the vivette crossbody or don't take it out i unzip it bandos 10 rack it out right there oops what just spilled out all over the floor tap caps whoa are those mine sir would you like black chips or yellow chips i say one yellow chip please of course five thousand dollars of course the pit boss the pit boss sees he says oh wait sir we we also accept those so tap caps is payment here so i get down i get on my knees and scoop them up each each one is worth fifteen hundred dollars excellent thank you very much excellent excellent thank you very much i scooped them up is that the gooey rare one every 10 boxes you know i do the pit boss not the dealer i take it put it in his pocket yes stuff it in the front pocket and then he mickey mouse betting with him he starts clicking it like golden eye while you're playing and i and i and all they you know they take a wild account of my money it's all real bring me back my chips i only play one hand what happened two queens i split them split the queens everyone at the table's furious the president i split the queens i lose it all just another day just another day you splash the table with 50 more tap caps and you walk out yeah that's fucking awesome and that's that's the life that he's leading because he knows and in cop a vet what are you doing and enter you ate and walks in a chucky cheese he's dressed into the nines in ludwig mogul moves gear it's playing ai children's music gg fucking easy he doesn't realize it but his nuts have flopped out of his shorts he's walking around no come on we're nuts away he goes he goes he gets to the go he goes to get the gold coins that you have to trade in your cash for his bills getting rejected he only has hundreds they say 20 max he has 120 to wrinkly they don't take it aiden can't leave an arcade until he has a thousand sticky hands it's a video him getting mad at children's arcade games would be so perfect bro when you use when you move the lever it doesn't move relative to the amount of time you spent pushing the lever to the right it doesn't i took a video it doesn't look i took a video it's in slow motion watch watch the video i just want you guys to see this so you know that i'm not really failing at this the system itself is failing in the machine it overextends when you go and you press the button late and it stops immediately when you press the button early it's the machine's broken she's broken like can you get us with that full kit i want full press kit okay and we come to the nines just fucking full of that uh episode where we're all dressed buddy you spend more on clothes i really don't i'm wearing mogul lingerie this is made in china yeah but it's all made we also price hike it that shit's cheap what what's the margin on this uh i think it's like three thousand percent we make it for about 45 cents for about like i don't even know the number that's why you don't typically have to sell a lot and why you don't sell a lot and then they buy it and they put a little they put a couple pins on it one that says like fucking glizzy goblin and one that says like one night stand and we do pre-order so you'll get it in about 12 to 18 months and maybe 24 depending on supply chain stuff and and honestly we sell 15 at most we would be lucky and you saw you saw you saw a professor l sold seven thousand dollars of merch that's what it said yeah seven thousand what a god what a generationally thousand if you had just showed the previous month ain't it surprisingly bad at merch you know what is always a recession indicator is streamer slash influencer merch included being offered up as uh sold items on subreddits of said influencer slash podcaster no i actually think goodwill is a bigger i think goodwill is bigger because i think sometimes people are either flipping for profit or flipping for size difference like they change size wait goodwill wouldn't be good because because you're donating right you're not getting any money out of it i'm specifically saying this is an indication of what can i get rid of for a little bit of money i interpreted i see my daddy's gone the true meaning of recession is that you're not getting any money out of it you're not getting i interpreted it as like we felt off the recession of us the podcast an economic uh what do you call it a canary in the coal mine an economic canary in the coal mine in the coal mine and and you know what it's the old yard book a couple of yard books that once once the straight of hormuz was closed months ago a couple of them yard books went up on the subreddit they listed and i said i'm paying i'm watching this space yes it's expensive i gotta sell my book i copped a little of that you copped what'd you cop what'd you get boy what pieces did you grab copped a little bit of that you copped some pieces i copped Well, it made me feel like a bitch. Why? Gendered. Inherently always gendered. You are a gendered bitch. Bitch is a gendered word. It's always been and always will be. It's inherent. You don't need to say it. Just to clarify, I emphasized the gendered there. Okay. That was an emphasis. He's saying, I want to use the more gendered bitch. Yeah, there's a non-gendered and a gendered. No, there's not. There's not a non-gendered version of the word. Bitch are, bitch on, bitch almost. I copped the beginner hoodie in the beginner sweats. Because humble beginnings. It's funny they call it the beginner hoodie. It makes me feel like I have no fashion when I purchase it. And I don't. Because many, this is their first entry into expensive outfits. This is your beginner. Welcome to the world of high fashion. Let Vivette open the red carpet to you to high fashion. Also buy a streaming backpack that has no gear. Dude, it's crazy. Nick thought I had gear. Nick, it was funny. It was funny. I've only ever seen those streaming backpacks on the guys with faves who stand like this. Yeah. And he always got it all the way up the sleeve. Outfit's fucking like $8,000, by the way. Talking about Gilly. And I just assumed that the gear came with the backpack. Like, I didn't think anyone had bought that backpack without the gear ever. Right. So when Kai was making one, I'm like, how could you sell something less? Than what the expectation of the public would be with that thing? You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Because you were. I didn't know how expensive it was. I didn't know it was a $20,000 backpack. You look up the price of these things when you start getting curious about what is it like. I think it's $30,000. To IRL stream. And they get pretty fucking crazy. It is crazy. Because you would just imagine if I was like, auto, build, build me the backpack. He'd be like, well, I took a raspberry pie and it works. And it's like, it was like a hundred bucks. Yeah. I don't honestly know. I think they have some proprietary shit that makes it like hard. It's harder to recreate. Like if I were to have auto to do it, but I should try that. I do think they have a crazy. Well, you should try it. How cheap can auto rebuild the streaming backpack? It's I guess. What the hell is he doing right now? He's actually working on something. I'll tell you. He's working on a chess website so I can play against Levy. But every time we lose, we add one person. So it's like, imagine he has one chess board, then it's two. Oh, it's like, it's an increasing simul. Yes. But he only gets five minutes per game. Oh, that's low. So it's so he, it's like, how, when does he cap out mentally? Does it, can he go back to any game or does it just show whatever, whoever just plays all the same screen? Yeah. It's all the same screen. Wow. It'd be like big fucking screen of everything. And you just see which one you have to move on. How the fuck will he move when there's 20 people? Cause he's going to beat a lot of people. I think he gets to nine. Are you kidding? Just cause time bro. Time pressure. Well then it's, is it not that interesting if he loses to time? Well, he's never going to lose to checkmate. If people, if people don't, blame him like just instantly move and force him to instantly move. He will just keep going. He'll, he'll get over 20. He has to instantly, his opponents have to instantly move, but in a way that's not a blunder. Cause he can't just instantly move if it's a blunder. You can't, if he has to address it with up to, he has so many boards that all have his turn and time taking down at the same time. And eventually it's just going to be too much. If the goal is to just have him lose one of the games, the goal is to overwhelm him. Like when does, he run out of Ram? Yeah, man. Cause what's the, what's the rank of the players against him? Like there must be a standard there, right? The golden standard of 1100. Can I be one of them? What? 13. My fault still. Yeah. Holding down. 1300. You've peaked. You're 1300 right now. Do you promise me? It, I'll, I can log in. It's 1300. I think I saw you play on stream. What my, I'm living my peak buddy. I'm living it. You're living it. You're 1300. You're peaking. You're not right now. I'm living the peak. Did you hit 1300 and retire? Uh, I hit 1300. I retired. I played a game. I'm still in 1300, 1300. You said one game, just a game. Yeah. And I want it. Wow. You want your 1300 game? You're 1300. Uh, you want in? Yeah. Let me play. Okay. Go baby. I got, I got a text from, um, I think it was a Turok when he was like, he was like, Hey, do you want to play in the simul that we're doing? It's like with Magnus Carlson. And I was like, yeah. Yeah. What is it? He's like today. I'm like, I can't, I can't drive to that. He fucked me. How? He fucked me crazy. How do you fucking bad style? Cause we were supposed to play Pokemon. Okay. Yeah. And he goes, yeah, we'll put Pokemon tomorrow. And then at two o'clock and then, and then like noon hits and he's like, ah, forgot about Blur's birthday party. Got to go to Blur's birthday party, but I'll be ready at five. Okay. You weren't invited to Blur's birthday party? No, no, not a shot. I'm just a stream viewer. Were you invited? No. Interesting. That is interesting. A line in the sand has been drawn. Me and Aiden just talked about lines in the sand being drawn by friends. Anyway, that's a line in the sand and I'm okay with, I am a Blur viewer. So I feel like it'd be parasocial for her to show up. Right. I feel that. Sure. I feel that. Also the party would take probably what? Four hours longer than expected. Well, cause yeah, the first four hours he's going through the line of DoorDash items that he could get. Yeah. Yeah. And he's like, no, cause you know, in three hours, if we eat this now, we won't be hungry. But he also, didn't want to use some sort of calculator. He wanted to do it in his head. All in his head. And he's not particularly fast at it. An honest man. He's not fast. No, he's not fast. We don't need to be fast. Sometimes the party ends in seven minutes. And then, you know, what he loves to do is recheck his work cause he thinks he might've got it wrong. So it's like, it's a mental calc. Let me recalc it mentally. Have you seen the clip of Blur coaching Zane actively while he's playing? Yeah. Yeah. It's amazing. It's so good. He's like, no, no, no patience. Get on stage. And I'm like, brother, what do you, what do we do? It's so beautiful. But Zane as a great player and a great mind, we'll listen to Blur and be like, okay, sure. Yeah. Yeah. He'll take it into consideration. Zane unironically loves Blur's coaching. If you ask him about it, he's like, yeah, dude, Zane will be like, yeah, he's, he has great ideas. It's like me watching Steph Curry and he's like dribbling the ball. And I'm like, I'm like, going with him. Like, bro, it's, it's Steph Curry. It misses. You get mad. I'm like, but, you got to hit that. This is how Zane, this is how Zane got good at melee. This is, this is his famously hot, like best quality at learning things. Because I think Iceman wrote a post about it a long time ago. And he talked about how like Zane was already better than him. And it was at that big house where he popped off and he beat Plup and all these things. And him and Iceman were playing friendlies the year before. Iceman like gives him a bunch of notes. Like he was losing, but he's like, I think you can do this and this and this better. And then Zane comes back and they play friendlies at the next big house, like a year later. And Iceman's like, Oh my God, you did all the things I gave you. Yeah. Like you do them now. And you're whooping my ass. Like, and this is, this is Zane's not above any feedback. And that's how you become the best. He gets up and he goes, no notes, no notes. Stay the way you are. I'm Zane, by the way, you'll see him in the big stage. Do you think if you, does Zane give notes or does he only take notes? He coached me. And he gave you notes. He gave me great notes. He does not give unsolicited notes. Of course. He's smarter than that. But if you ask for notes, yeah, he gave me a lot of notes in the matchup versus Marth. It made me, it made me realize the matchup is unwinnable. If the Marth, if the Marth deems it. Yeah. If the Marth wishes, if the Marth, if the Marth wishes, Falco doesn't win it. He just doesn't. He was like, Hey, you see this pixel? It's like kind of really close to me, but it's not close enough to where I can grab you. If you're not standing here, 100% of the game, you lose the game. And me, I kind of just do whatever I want and hope that when you're on that pixel, I, my grab hits you and sometimes it misses. But only, but if it misses, it's not the worst thing in the world. If it misses, Falco gets 50%. Yeah. Resets to neutral. He gets a juicer. If, if I, but if it doesn't miss, I die. Yeah. When Marth gets his, it's a bigger juicer. We should, we should extend that question to the fans, by the way, that, that, cause I was three V one on that. Maybe 99 V one potentially, but I was saying Falco at this point is more tortured than Falcon. No, I think I believe this. Now we're just saying you're the immediate thing you said was, Falcon gets to play against Marth. And I'm like, honestly, every, every single year since 2000, let's say 2015, Falco has gone down a spot on the tier list and Falcon has not. Falcon has either stayed or people have considered him higher because of his matchup spread versus the peaches, the Marth, the, you know, anyone who can't just like instantly combo him to death every single time. So two things. One, I don't really care about all that. I'm talking about what it feels like to play Falcon and it feels worse to play Falcon. And most of the time, but you don't play Falco anymore. You don't care. I don't care. I've played them both. Like I play them not in the modern era. Yeah. I've been talking to the modern era. So by that logic, I shouldn't even be talking. And then we can do play Falcon in the modern era. I haven't played melee in like a year, but you've been to tournaments in the past couple of years longer than that. When's the last time you played? I beat graves in 2023 with Falco. Is that not the modern era? Uh, in 2023, that's the modern era. That's the modern era. Okay. It's a Falco. What? Where it doesn't matter. Okay. Listen to me. I think it feels like Falcon is more oppressed and it just feels that way because, and your immediate thing was he does, he gets to play against Marth. Thing is he's not beating Marth in that, that grand giant Zane world. He doesn't get to do that. And that's, and I'm like, yeah, we both don't get to be Marth. It's interesting as a point of conversation, the oppression Olympics of melee, because the only value out of it is maybe the respect that you garner when you play the character. For sure. But it's also like just the most pathetic sticks to pick up off the floor. Cause it's like, doesn't matter you can pick whatever like if you really believe your character's bridge you can pick a better we all had the same character select screen yes yes there's no value in your character being more oppressed merely ought to be played a certain way for the art of it but that's irrelevant to the oppression but i'm i'm i'm defying i'm defying the oppression from my oppressor by continuing forward i'm i'm unbreakable i'm i'm holding the log yeah but they're saying drop it i'm saying i'm gonna keep down airing your shield i'm just gonna keep doing okay sure i i'll agree you're like atlas but you're like atlas if everyone walking by you're like this is so heavy like yeah i promise you this is so i would argue falcon holds a bigger boulder but he has more fucking muscle what i'm saying oh yeah man i know it's heavy for me too man it doesn't matter it when the holder of the boulder says so fucking heavy yeah he's saying he's saying it when it falls out of his shoulders i think that's the moment that he gets to be like the guys look how heavy that was you can say no because that's it that's if you were to quit the character you drop it you go it was too heavy oh i thought that meant when you're like lost no dropping the boulder means you lost and you turn to your friends and they're all behind you at genesis and you stand up he didn't just lose his pre-cope in a way this is pre-cope it was funny because i was what you're okay so in in esports news welcome to the esports news esports the yard sponsored player magi unfortunately got humiliated i messaged her after the tournament i said as your sponsor we must talk about what happened she was like 1 000 lashings for magi okay she's she's like what was it game five with wizzy she's game five with wizzy she is like wizzy's like 170 percent she comes she has like pretty much a fresh two stocks two stocks days one and i look at everyone in the room because i probably watch the most tournaments out of all of us through and through because i streamed them and i looked at him like guys i don't think she wins this one and everyone's kind of rolls their eyes it's like yeah i'm like okay you were saying like hey i've been written yeah he kept talking about the prophecy i was downstairs in the bathroom watching zane and mochi's commentary of it and mochi spoke it into existence too he was like i think magi chokes this it's just one of those things that you you see actually a lot it happens a ton and it did she she basically oh god can we go she goes for the backward laser edge guard i'll say this she was at more of an advantage before this even boom wizzy this backward laser the game's over off stage at 160 last stock it's like a fun screenshot of who wins wearing our fucking logo and she goes for a swaggy can you believe falcon even fucking recovered here wait how is this possible what happened oh he still has jump i've watched this and i don't know what happened kicks does this jump she misses down there she misses down there by a lot she back here oh she back here she back here oh magi that is fucked oh my god and then and this is what you know watch okay wait wait watch how desperate she gets she starts doing like like no short hop nares into the corner and there's the f smash especially in the shield is there and then she rolls it again you have to roll the ledge magi but we keep rolling in oh man this is so sad it drops out oh watch this in the air it's our chance and might i say as a falcon player as well beautiful beautiful fade back down here you make a little it's like puff you make a little c in the air you go and it was just immaculate anyway uh right before that stock she in the in the scary time where i'm like she can lose this she did this like brilliant shine horizontal wavelength on the top plat and me and nick at the same time oh it's like seeing a cool car yeah oh my god it's brief so you don't say much but it's like oh wow you're like yeah she's like that i've been going to this smoothie store and they have the best smoothies in the world and it's but it's so annoying because i keep trying to tip them but they all they have is this it's like a california chap i don't know if you know the chap program chap it's like ca chap i don't know what it is but i don't know what it is but i don't i keep trying to give them cash but they say you have to use the california chap program and i and i've not given them a fucking dime it's funny that you didn't get affected really by distance learning but talking to you you would assume that you did you're reading you're reading the word cash app it's cash app oh you thought it was california chap yeah i thought you know because ca california no it's not any sort of puzzle it's not a puzzle i'm working on the mr beast puzzle like it right you haven't really so i go to the smoothie shop i'm mr beast book and i've been working on the mr beast puzzle to make a million and i'll say this cash app is not a government program it's a california thing or a puzzle and it's i mean it's california it's an everywhere thing really it's not right sacramento san francisco los angeles well you can use you could use the app you could just send friends money with it super easy but i know what you're thinking you might want a little debit card to to use the money that accumulates i get points at the smoothie store if i do use the california chap yeah yeah so so it's not a california chap right just chap it's just a private company not owned by california government okay yeah and all you have to do by the way to unlock higher borrow limits is spend at least five hundred dollars a month which you've got down well i'm in the smoothie shop every day because it's a big puzzle yeah you got the smoothie shop itself is a puzzle no the mr beast how is the puzzle linked to the smoothie shop i haven't finished a book yet i'm on page three but i've been going for months okay you know what you have a different problem too you just let money sit in your account i see how much sits there and you don't do anything with it there's no interesting you can keep the money in cash app and earn interest on it so do i where who in california do i talk to actually you know what i don't think phones are for you i think this is for other people but the funny thing is doesn't sound like bookstar either so he's kind of a man without a country right now i think you need to raw dog the rest of life and as a new cash app cash app customer uh you can earn ten dollars if you use the code cash app 10 ludwig do you realize that how do you is it c-a-s-h c-a-s-h i do see what that's saying shapp 10 in their profile at sign up and said five dollars to a friend within 14 days terms do apply that's c-a-s-h-a-p with two p's 10 maybe it is a government program i think it's a california government program not a government program i'm being convinced i how did he convince you in two minutes i don't know he's charming you should tip your smoothie people and guess what there's one more screen oh i got it california shop is a financial services platform not a bank banking services provided by california shopping partners prepaid debit cards issued by sutton bank member fdic cash app visa debit flex cards issued by sutton bank member fdic and the bank bank na pursuant to a license from visa usa inc see terms conditions for the sudden prepaid card sutton debt flex card and bank corp deflex card cash app green future savings direct deposit roundups overdraft coverage and discounts California shop a block ink brand california shop.app slash legal slash podcast how do you remember all that you didn't even know it was called it's literally on the smoothie shop door that's why i'm not far in the book because i have to get through that and by the time i'm done i finished my smoothie so i leave yeah i don't know it's maybe sign up for it i don't know i don't i'm fucking i hate you i hate i don't i don't want to do it with you anymore one day we'll be together anyway uh she is humiliated another news in in a sub uh sub esports news i myself with my esports company goats esports i sponsored elliot if you guys didn't know that and elliot played at riptide on behalf of goats esports i didn't even notice that he got some placing i don't even remember uh stream he got on the multi stream that's huge for the goats and goats is currently funneling in 15 mil from their series a yeah we got our series a it's cute they have lace on board tap caps is a big sponsor suno degenerative ai music company oh my god um gg we got the two fucking the two young young kids from gg fucking easy elliot's gonna be meeting them wow photo shoot it's gonna be really fun dude i got a i got a dm from someone i haven't talked to in like six months and he was like dude have you seen that valorant song i instantly thought of you like what does that mean it's mean i thought of you and he was like you look just like the girl dude i will say it would be such a good cs2 mvp song oh yeah yeah yeah i'd be so money the round wins where does it start and end i thought about this i think you just i think you just need it's but do you include hey don't say that maybe i don't know i wouldn't because what if it's like you start on hey don't say that gg franken firkin firkin easy is the second time because they're kind of long she does say fucking for real and later it's but it's weird it's the first one she says she says fucking and he says don't say that and then she's like really which is a weird thing to say back to don't say that really yeah and then she says firkin easy but the caption says fucking easy this is all very confusing firkin is fun i've never said firkin i say i say freaking f-u-h-r-k-i-n this is freaking insane but you know what's funny that's the gen z spelling of it the millennium spelling millennial spelling of it would be f-e-r-k like yeah that's how i spell it yeah like ermagerd girl yes yes yes yeah uh i was saying it's sort of a callback to millennial cringe that where they're finding it again they're unearthing it from the stones and saying oh look at this what do you think i'm gonna censor your why would she after someone says don't say that and you're trying to be like edgy to censor yourself well maybe maybe i'm still saying that it was easy noob but i'm not gonna swear because that's what you were upset about you're mad that i swear also kitten should like you should listen to kitten if kittens in the call saying don't swear maybe i'm not gonna swear i'm not gonna swear i'm not gonna swear you listen to kitten he's kidding he's kitten he's kidding okay no he's not kidding i think she's kitten whether what is he kitten gets to say what he's the lion once that he's the lion and the lion says don't say that and kitten goes okay i won't well i'll spurt it i'll immediately turns on him to be fair this is freaking the lion shouldn't be telling kitten not to say gg easy is she the lion maybe she's not the lion according to them she's a kitten i thought she was the lion is it possible they're on opposite teams like is it possible these are two people against each other no i don't know i haven't watched the full song i watched the full song really so what does it say what is it what is the lower new skin what does he say what gives this so much pull right he said i'm finna get a new wit i'm finna get a new skin he does say he got it the first line of the song is i got a new skin yeah and it's very general what game they can get the song up maybe he said iced out and i'm flicking iced out and i'm flicking and then it shows him flicking his wrist and it looks like when you look at their hands it's like swiffer commercial gaming it doesn't look like either of them ever touched a video game uh why is it going viral yeah what do you think what do you think it gives us so much rage hole strange bit and catchy it's yeah it's both things it's low-key crazy catchy that's why uh but here's the thing you haven't seen it it the thing is it's actually genuinely pretty hard to find on youtube the actual song doesn't have that many views it's hard it's hard i've only seen i've seen the clip fucking easy like five second clip a ton and have yet to see a link of the full thing doesn't have like a million views on youtube you liar yeah yeah but that's what i'm saying it's i think that's not that many compared to the discourse on twitter which is like multi millions gg easy they'll fuck it in the title you do look like her hey don't say that really let her say it fucking easy i will say great singers they're clearly reading the lyrics right yeah like off of a google dot well i don't this is a music video they're this is not what i'm singing it no but like they're to mouth it off the screen why would they just be looking at the screen the whole time sorry in the shoot this is in the shoot in the shoot this is in the shoot i don't think so did you did you think i thought that did you think i thought they were reading the music video did you think that i thought they were looking at their own yeah because like you turned off i can't listen to this this is just i'm already tracing easy yes it is it is i'm already that's a great but the the difference is here aiden that the song was made by ai oh and then they by suno then they made a cover of the ai version of the song what yeah to like to like reclaim it which is oh they didn't make the ai song no oh they just covered it yeah they like covered it i think it's kind of badass it's not badass we're taking it back from the robot we're taking it back we're reclaiming art everyone who works for ai music should be holding their own entrails i'm not kidding re redrawing all of the ai art what's wrong with a little ai music it's isn't that what music's all about yeah it is yeah hopping into an uber and listening to this song what would we rather have a benny blanco banger or this you're into benny blanco now he talked about a lot on stream benny blanco somebody's wife i forget well that's it feels like a i know but isn't it little dickies she's having the pedigree that i would know her outside i know she doesn't have the pedigree because she's just somebody's wife she must be someone to introduce on the fucking show it's not what i was saying she's somebody not what it feels like i i don't watch the show so i don't know her name i just knew that she was married to somebody on the show crazy you're not watching that because everybody's watching that we gotta get on that we gotta get the whole yard on that show the whole yard whole ass yard singing gg freaking easy of the vet on benny blanco little dicky show i i think there's a way to connect this all to what we were talking about earlier is that there is a there is a membrane that is hard to puncture of things that are kind of humiliating and not cool one of these is streaming the other one is playing valorant and being a computer gamer and no matter how hard you try to make the the the joji-esque leap from filthy frank to joji is way harder from this arena right counter this is looked at as something that's hilarious and to be made fun of counter counter counter and i play it face down you turn around it says super tf what are you talking about streamer who plays valorant who's fucking cool yeah he is cool but he doesn't he's not exiting that realm the issue is people think he's cool on stream within the confines of the stream itself and you are in a small box if once the camera goes into the room and we can see you gaming no one's cool super tf is alpha when he goes around in the streets and people recognize him they start shaking yeah but again that's because because they're parasocial cups because they watch his stream to fulfill the power fantasy of being mean to a rich guy who's better than a video game and they start shaking and super os grabs their hand he goes it's okay don't shake around me can i get can i get your super my super yeah uh i watch him a lot these days uh i don't know um you got a really interesting i'm not a boy slut bro bro you can't call me a boy slut yeah why is everyone calling me a boy slut wait i can't do super he's like he's like a kermit it's a little gary v there's a kermit you know what he hits when he's upset he hits the northern lion come on man i want the the super tf streaming masterclass the super tf streaming masterclass the gary the gary v by my course for streaming by super dude that jersey accent i will say he's a consistent guy or philly rather very consistent guy because he got fucking nothing going on day to day he's doing the same shit bro he loves it though he loves being on the computer he fucking loves valorant uh he might go back and play overwatch dude he was watching overwatch championships yeah he was he's at blizzcon this weekend um it's funny so is brawl pro my my two online friends are in town but it's anaheim and it's it's that la moment where you're like sorry dude nah man i don't want to drive i can't hang out with you oh he's in la yeah they're both at blizzcon oh i didn't realize i was in la yeah it's it's yeah isn't that funny i'm gonna hit your ass up i'm not a blizzard guy yeah i'm a blizzard guy me and zipper actually you're a blizzard guy an hour after you guys left yesterday about blizzard and being guys that are like almost 40 and shit it is the best time in the world to be a guy who's almost 40 because all the games are made for you blizzard's like millennial core right yeah yeah yeah and gen x that's why i miss it uh you also it's like computers yeah i didn't have a computer when i was growing up we played what switch switch we switch i like the we and you get a macbook so it's different yeah it's not a you you had to have a windows pc i played armaged armagedron advanced which is like tron that is that's like it's like tron we've talked about on the show it's got a pretty crazy community they're releasing classic plus yeah they're releasing a bunch of shit they're releasing a starcraft like open world shooter that releases in four years which is 2030 disgusting it's it's all jerk i don't have a respect for any of this shit sure but i do think i am the kind of guy who i saw a new starcraft i'm like i'm gonna buy it yeah because we're really talking about who's gonna buy shit and guys like us are gonna buy shit there are certain ips every time they make a smash bros for the rest of time i will buy it i just have to play it i'm gonna buy this legend is elder remastered got me by the nuts and again great time to be a guy in his 30s yep everything is made for us right now when did you play ocarina of time when i was a little ass jit that was the last time no i went to replay with my friend jake in high school y'all did not finish that shit uh jake went crazy jake went crazy at a certain point we were passing control and then i passed it and i never picked it up again damn and i just watched jake and jake was going fucking nuts jake's sort of the alpha ludwig used to like couch gaming with a friend yes you can't now it's awesome one of the last times i hung out with just ludwig where we were not waiting for other people was at his apartment playing kingdom hearts i was at your house watching your girlfriend play dark souls oh that doesn't count i didn't say just us huh oh the female was there oh all right yeah i guess that's a good point yeah think about it tell me i didn't think about how the female was there yeah and i apologize in advance for when the post comes out the post we've said for 100 times on this show every good man well they're not people they know we're joking some people don't think we're joking and they still watch the show i don't like this so interesting the pocket of people who just didn't know what foyd meant was actually the largest as i realized which is kind of comforting yeah it was actually i think and i was like that's good yeah this is actually good yeah i was it was funny because i would watch who did i watch i watched tens and you go from watching a lot of super to watching a lot of tens and the difference is it's kind of hey well there's gameplay okay i'm about to talk about the guy who made your keyboard right now okay he did hint he handcrafted mine yep so just don't step to me just i do think it's weird i do think it's weird he's in a content group now he's on thin ice you do the movements like that it's like a maestro and they would follow him in the factory he'd go right hand up and then they would all follow suit yeah i'm watching him and i'm like the difference here is that i don't think uh like i think super loves the streaming the game and i think tens just plays it at least the stream i turned tuned into it was very like lights off doggy style i'm not talking to chat for probably like an hour straight he low-key like shroud he like a gen z trout i think it's and you somehow, some guys just manage They want to be the Kahlua anime PFP streamer that never says anything and they just get really good at the game. And there's a couple people who win the lottery and get to do it forever. And it's Tenzin Shroud. Well, hold up. I think there's a reason that Super's not doing that. Because Super likes talking to people. Well, I guess Tenzin, he's conversational. Because he doesn't have the skill. He does not have the skill. Wait, what do you mean? He was one of the best Overwatch players ever. He gets to have that. Addendum, addendum. I think it's not that he doesn't have the skill. I think that he is fine. He is okay with not having the skill. Whereas Tenzin's image is intertwined with being really good at games. So in order to upkeep that image, he must always be trying. Which means playing at his high elos. Where Super will just play Valorant and be shit and not really care that he's not as good as the other thing he does. And I also think he's held his skill. He's held his skill. Like Super has lost his skill. If Timmy, if Timmy, if you, if Timmy, touched the Monstar's ball and had the power sucked out of him. And Timmy was stuck in silver. Which Super touched. It was the mean of breasts. Nobody, yeah, that's what did it. The mean of breasts took away his power. If Timmy did that. Yes. People wouldn't watch Timmy anymore. Less people would watch Timmy or he would have to pivot. But Super does, Super was amazing at a game. Is amazing at that game. No, he's not amazing anymore. He's not amazing. You don't think he's not still good at Overwatch? I don't, I, good, not in the same way Timmy and Tenzin are good. This is like, it's like. Yeah, but I don't think. I don't think, nobody cares enough. Brian Scalabrini's not good at basketball anymore. It's like, yeah, he fucking is. He is. No, I think, I think it's like, Super's like Brian F now. Do you think that, do you think that. No, he's not. No thing to Brian. Do you think that Super. Sorry. Sorry. It's not like that. Brian, I love you. It's not like that. For one, I think Super could become like amazing at that game again. Never again. Just never again. Never again. Okay, heard. But secondly, do you think that Super is a far, a further distance from the number one Overwatch player than Tenz is from the number one CS player? I'm not saying Valorant. Why CS? Because that's, that is where Tenz got his name. But what's the point in making it a weaker game for him? It's just to make your argument better? Because, because Super has not been an Overwatch pro for quite a while. It's about the same distance of time. Yeah, but they also pivoted games. So I feel like it seems like a weird swap to make. Why? Because I think Tenz is a Valorant game mind. That's what he plays. I mean, Super still plays Overwatch. He was a CS player for longer. Um, it just feels like an arc. It feels like you're creating confines to empower your argument rather than what's maybe more natural to the people. I think what matters more is how long ago it was since they were a pro in that thing. Um, yeah, I would, I would wager to bet that Tenz will be better at Valorant relative in the amount of years, like in the future. Or he's better now than Super was this amount of years. This is very nitpicky. Clarifying question, because I don't know the answer. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Did Super fall off in Overwatch and start streaming? Or did he just start streaming as a choice because he wanted to? And like, I think Overwatch, he bowed out. I think he bowed out and Overwatch League fell apart. Wait, by the way, Zipper, can you, this is the story. If you guys don't know, over the weekend, Brian F has been addicted to this new Avatar fighting game that's kind of like, it's very fighting game-esque. It's very like fun for the, for the core heads, but it's very unpolished. He played a first 100 set with Idom, who he has a podcast with, who's a pro player. And, uh, yeah, go to the next picture. This was him like six hours. Have you ever seen Brian look like this? No, he looks so different. I've never seen this man look like this. He looks gaunt. He looks like Two-Face. Both sides of his face are making different expressions. The left side is still gaming and the right side is, is eight hours into a stream. He played a first 100 set in a pretty long fighting game. He, he got, uh, one hundred seven-deed. Not that bad. I mean, and the math kind of works out. I said it was like, kind of like a two-one. So it's like, you kind of just didn't need to play all them. I mean, that's like, isn't that, that's closer to a three-two. I thought he was on Hassan's streaming setup. Doesn't it kind of look like that? Yeah, it does look like Hassan's. It is a bunch of shit in the background and it's, uh, lit pretty much the same. Yeah, man. Redditor shelves, bro. You need one in the back. But yeah, that was, uh, Brian, he did this this weekend, and it was, it was kind of generational. Like, dude, you're watching him, and you, you tune in every couple hours just to see what's going on. Yeah, just to see how it is. 'Cause I'm not an avatar head, I'm watching this game. But then you see, like, it says IDOM 99, and you're like, well, Brian's only got one game to lose, and he's got 30 to win. How's he gonna pull himself out of this one, and he doesn't? He doesn't. Yeah, he doesn't. He doesn't. There's just too many games. But yeah, it was, honestly, it was a great, it was a great weekend in the fun world of gaming. Wow. Look at that. Video games are fun, dude. Video games are fun. Video games are fuckin' fun. Dude, fuck Ocarina of Time remaster. Fuck all that shit. You ever play the original game? Yeah, of course. Don't give a fuck. Why fuck the remaster? Don't give a fuck. I like that. I like that. Yeah, fuck Nintendo. I'm gonna still buy it, though. I'll buy that shit. I will be playing it. I'll fuckin' buy that shit. I'll still be mad at the company. Yeah. I don't like them. Can you do? You think they're gonna make the game all easier and shit? I think it's already pretty easy. I don't think they can. Yeah, they did that in the 3DS version, though. That's fine. It doesn't matter. None of this shit matters. It's all for 30-year-olds. Do you see Tafokins flaming a. A rando? A hardcore Marine Corps normie? What? Yeah, he got too upset at a normie. Tafo did? Yeah, he just. Tafo got let off the chain? He got let off the chain. He took himself off the chain for. Vicky, I know you're listening. What happened? For a case, he probably shouldn't have taken himself off the chain. What happened? Tafo was like. Ocarina of Time was actually really hard as a kid if you didn't have guides and stuff. And then a bunch of normies were like, "You found that game difficult? You're an idiot." And he was like, "No. Actually, I think here are all the things in the game that I think are really hard if you don't look anything up and you're 10." And you're 8. Yeah. Like me. It was hard. And they're like, "Yeah. Any kid in the world figured that out. We all figured it out. No guides. Nothing." I think these guys are a little delusional. I think most kids looked stuff up to play Ocarina of Time. At least one or two things or whatever. And Tafo. This one guy was like. He said something to the extent of like, "Bro, I would crush you and fucking you suck at gaming," whatever. And Tafo was like, "I'd venture to say that I have more gaming prowess than you in anything and would put up 50,000 whatever to fight you." Five crack. Five bans, bro. Five bans? The thing is, the guy was making a hard line. Go down. That one. I'm willing to bet. Scroll down. I'm willing to bet any amount of money that my pedigree and accomplishments in gaming beats yours. But the guy said, "I'll play you in Melee if you use no glitches or anything." No glitches or cheats. Glitches or exploits. Oh my god. Which, that's like such a tired argument. Just immediately telling. I didn't see this one. This. Okay, yeah. "I won't wavedash. Best of five. Will fly you out to Los Angeles and get you a hotel." This is awesome. Okay, let's scroll down. This. The only thing to solve. This is AuraLoss. When you start listing out. Yeah. He put Diamond in League. Tafo-kins. My favorite young man. Diamond's pretty high. Wait. If he was Diamond back in the day. I don't care. It doesn't matter. Diamond in League isn't interesting. My favorite is when we get to the part where he starts saying, "I did stuff when I was seven without help." And, "Cooked myself mac and cheese by eight." Yeah, that's pretty funny. No mom. That's pretty funny. I do think it's unnecessary to put his pedigree. I think most of his followers know. We know Tafo. But. He. To be fair, I didn't know that when he was seven to nine years old, he beat Final Fantasy 2. Did the guy reply without any help? If this guy thinks wavedashing is an exploit, it's so funny to challenge a Sheik player. Yeah. Because he just doesn't. It's the wrong guy. And Tafo already did this. Tafo did the thousand dollar money match back at fucking Apex 2014. What was that? You remember? The. It was. It was like one of the big. Oh, yeah. It was the biggest money match for a long time in Melee history. And it was Tafo versus Tope. Tope. No. No, no, no. It was another. Not Tope. It was. It was. Tien? Tien. Yeah. That's right. That's right. And then Toph. Yeah. What. You're like, damn, Toph. Damn, Toph. Off the lead. Okay. Tafo said he would use Ganon, which was pretty funny. He's like, I can just stand and use Ganon, and it's fine. But I think challenging a Scrando to a 1v1 is always funny. But telling a Scrando that, guess what, I'm actually Diamond in League is the wrong way to do this. And guys, I think I'm experienced here. I get in a lot of Scrando fights. I think Diamond's beast. But I do think telling him, your Diamond is lame. And then when the guy. I'm the Diamond's beast. And then when the guy doesn't reply. When the guy doesn't reply to the invitation, it's going all the way to the top. But you find. No, no, no. Sorry. Go a little further down. You find a different tweet from him and send it again. Another quote. It's still on the table. Yeah. That's fun to do. Offer still on the table. You know what I like to do? I mean, I feel like this guy. The person, as soon as you put money up and offer to handle all expenses, you offer to solve all of the friction for the other person. And then they just crumble. And don't say anything. They say, I'm not going to do that. I have a life. They automatically lose. Of course. We had a company retreat. Way to go. Way to go. It went fucking great. Was it beautiful? It was. It was a fucking keg stand. Oh, my. And Liza fucking threw up. Vader hit a keg stand. On Yingling's head. Aiden was being a fucking huge pussy because he kept saying, I'm sleepy at nine o'clock. Yeah. You're different and you're worse for it. I'm not a pussy. Yeah. You're worse than different. I'm not a pussy. But it went well. But there was, unfortunately, a narc amongst us. What? It's probably Yingling. Okay. Yingling was a narc. It wasn't Yingo. Wait. No one fessed? Wait. Yingling did make a mistake on this trip, though. Well, what's that? You want to talk about that? It was a mistake. You tell me. Who was the narc? Was it the mistake I made the group chat when the distribution hit? We talked about that at the retreat. Yeah. That was a little much, bro. Do you know how that image came into my life? What image? one of lee sin with his penis out and not just his penis the biggest penis in the world biggest johnny sins curved fucking meat ever was because sanch got banned from discord for posting that image in a discord wow and then he sent to me and i immediately posted it in discord saying if it was the image or if it was him yeah you uh we hit we hit we got a distribution we get a little money hit the account and then you posted big penis i said when the yard distro hit and it was big penis lee sin and we have one where it's just literally the four of us and i should have there it is i should have put it in there somebody i think it was yingo because he's in there showed it to me on the trip and he's like look what slime posted i was like that's crazy it was funny because nobody replied to it for so long it's a fucking person group it was like 20 and then you replied to yourself and we're like on second thought this should have gone in the chat but you didn't delete it didn't get replied to but it got skull emojied yeah let's yingly move guys guys aiden we're out of it i've been living at aiden's house we're out of the hungry route and i ate all his hunger we're out of it because nick will eat animals we don't have any of the free fucking free meals left dude yeah the issue is aiden is hungry we're out of it because nick will eat animals we don't have any of the free fucking free meals left dude yeah the issue is aiden actually you know he's he's got a lot of wealth he had a private chef his private chef was shot and killed yeah i didn't even read about that cat food cat food does your okay so i understand the idea of you not having hunger you don't get access to over a thousand grocery items like salic is moving you don't get access to over two they screen out over 200 additives like high fructose corn syrup which you're probably eating now because you don't have any more but maybe are you grieving because maybe your personal shit chef was shot and killed and maybe that's actually what the problem is you haven't really unpacked that oh i don't care i think it's just i think it's just the fact that he can't eat in 15 minutes and i don't know where to get it because you gotta know where to get it when i had the seared steak tacos that you left in the what is that you're slurping when i had when i had it it was delicious it went to a good cause which was me i missed the jalapeno chicken ass and the vodka chicken skillet i had those two they were awesome and now i just eat dry cat food and my mouth feels fucking crazy you could get other food it would just be less nutritious that's all i have in my house nick the only way you can get other food aiden i can tell you right now is by going to hungryroot.com/theyard and using code the yard you get 40% off the first box plus a free item in your box for life dude i've been sitting at home i pretend like the cat food still is hungryroot and i pre-portioned it you are you have like a million dollars which i don't understand what is stopping you you go to hungryroot.com/theyard and use code the yard hungryroot.com/theyard and use code the yard you get 40% off your first box of free item of choice for your life but you're like freaking out emotionally instead of going hungryroot.com/theyard code the yard you're making a fake hungryroot with cat food for your cat it's cat food smoothie pretend it's a hungryroot smoothie it's hungryroot.com/theyard code the yard and whoever killed anders will find you wait so who was the narc on our lovely comfy retreat we were at dinner last night it's a beautiful dinner we're having a great time we're eating fucking australian wagyu wow fake wagyu it was fake wagyu it's way cheaper than regular wagyu but still good and whatever who gives a shit we're talking about gaming and kelby's like going deep into the conversation of like now ludwig okay seriously who would win a brovie bro me or you and then i'm telling him how the format's kind of like about neutral games and he goes okay okay out of everyone in the company what games are you better than everybody at and now we're talking about like that pedigree and he's quite confident that he's the best gamer or maybe it might be uh like maybe shake maybe aiden shake are you talking about who is the best at their best game no no like overall you enter a game league of legends why the fuck would it be shake are you the best at league of legends and then you go through or some shit like that and shake is better than what is shake's second game yeah like what you can't even name it this is what kelby's saying okay interesting kelby shouldn't say that i'm mad you guys are mad i'm mad i don't care what do i do with it you just gotta hold it because you're trying to argue me i'm not the guy i'm mad at kelby but he's not here he's not here and and so then he starts you know talking about that talking about league it gotta be aiden and then and then he starts talking about you run yeah because because he's like well do you include slime like he's in the office maybe slime's better than me at dota he's played a lot of dota could be and then and then he gets over to hmm for league though it makes it dude it makes it sound like kelby is just saying this to himself with everyone watching silently it's like like knife on plate everyone left the table 20 minutes ago we're cutting a pea in half all right the salt shaker's me and the pepper's slime we're both in midlife and the question comes up of it's christian he's passed out in a chair he's just talking to wait wait wait is slime gets brought in the conversation i don't get brought in the conversation am i part of this mmm like no disrespect not once i'm i'm melting kelby your name didn't come up one time how many games does kelby get i think that spiritually means i'm more a part of the office than nick which means i was exempt well in kelby's eyes at the very least kelby's games were a apex uh marathon league? was he kind of good at league? he said he gives league to shake let me guess the finals uh splitgate um portal 2 pvp dude in the group chat when you guys were posting what a guy who plays the finals who is into the finals looks like just posting different photos and webweb's like fucking come on dude yeah i get on i get on steam and i see the gaming smiler is playing the finals and i sent him a steam message that said me after eating my cat like a hamburger hey bro get on the finals uh steam joy and then my response to nick when he sent me that kyle posted in our friend discord and so now i got free reign in front of everybody so i found a picture of a guy who reviewed the dude perfect sour melon blast of body armor flavor at 7-eleven it's amazing i think they discontinued it and it's a guy holding it to the camera in a denver broncos jersey and he's balding and he's like bro hop on the finals hop on the finals mandy gets back later we can play till she comes home she's working a double it's so funny that kyle will be like yeah i don't play deadlock that's garbage so what has kelby got in the bag bro he got he got a few games i mean to be fair i give him apex halo starcraft 2 apex halo starcraft marathon yup and league you give him league huh no i think he gets a shake oh in the whole office yeah yeah oh i thought it was versus you no no it's the whole office but anyway he's got a few but but you know it's hard to prove any of this kind of just conjecture but then he was like who's better at league you or slime like who would get i guess higher ranking mid first talking to me yeah and i said i was i was at the table you know i'm fucking two glasses i got a red blend oh look what he's about how he's setting this up bro and i go i got fire me no questions asked and and this is in the privacy you say no questions asked oh do you allow yourself the space to space and lit that fire under me once do you have the space to allow yourself to maybe consider that it's not no questions asked it's the race in mid it's the mid race where slime and league i didn't question it i didn't question it really this is no questions asked is it because of the blended red is it because of the blended red maybe this would be stream of his fucking year get me on two glasses of the blended red there's no questions asked no questions asked i will make a call she account for this maybe i would have maybe i would have questioned it if i didn't have the red blend but that's all i get to the same conclusion it's just the confidence in my conclusion was quicker maybe i get a little confidence when i have wine lud can i can i get my opinion well before that we have there's a hole there was a leak there's a mole because this is at the company dinner and this i get a message from slime within like 45 minutes what did i say bro and it's and it's like he's just spamming the classic email vote no no i'm not saying i i can't i can't he's spamming i can't i said uh 12 51 a.m 9 11 never forget did you really say you would beat me in a mid race to gold brother i grew up in mid you wake up at 7 10 a.m i think i get there i said i think i get there yeah 11 19 i reply you don't even have any champs i can't ludwig i just get there i said i mean throw down the gauntlet or literally sit random kid i can't and then yes and you were saying i find a boring gallio mid or lux and i just get there yeah and so this actually god you're lux this is interesting because it does highlight the difference between me and ludwig and the the ongoing theory that nick has in the way we all approach games is similar to our personalities but ludwig would take this task as a task yep he would use claude to figure out what's the fastest way to get to mid he then fuck claude would not use claude and then he would ask clive as the claw against the claw robot in his living room i would go to the biggest streamer on the league category i would find them and i would say who's the best for mid this is essentially clawed and well but claude you know what i'm saying no you're looking for a human spirit looking for a neutral skip solution to finding the fastest way to achieve this goal like a robot yes meanwhile i am thinking i i'm you're thinking who's the most most breathtaking you put all the chance you line them up and then you start licking your lips you go zed take off the mask yes yes and i say and this is my little toys and it's tom kent's volleyball i bear in diana and then vigar joins the fight and i'm like look at all my little toys who i love i love vigar play with it i love their feelings i love the way they look and the way they feel and the way they are and i and i and there's a i love there is that you fiora okay fiora could you play down in mid for me i'd like to say something i i want a safe space for it to not come off as offensively can everyone agree or try to agree it sounds like it's only gonna be offensive to me i don't think i don't think it'll be an interesting test between two play styles in mid one who is someone who limit tests much more but absorbs a bit slower the information being tested and someone who limit tests not at all i feel like i'm wearing a beer helmet and someone who limits not at all but absorbs a bit quicker i i actually what is better more information in or less information in that you absorb more of i think nick and it's interesting you set up the question this way because there's a definitively correct answer do you think i don't know if there is i actually don't i mean there is and i think the way slime games if you're trying to hit gold if you're trying to hit a middle rank in a video game it's the ludwig way a hundred i don't know if that's true yes it is i've proved it in jungle no you shotgun in the bush you're a gold player and you're talking you're gold i want bro in mid you're not even gold you're not even golden mid i'm flat same conversation i i i i'm with nick on this it's a different game obviously you're also gold bro watch you play mid bro i threw up in my cost i don't know what to tell you guys you're a galio it looked like it was your first week i hear you it was but i'm also a plat player right so it's like and i appreciate you having a perspective because that's awesome like we all should have he had the conviction to hit plat but bro like tweet out on the five follower fucking account yeah about your league of legends thoughts because us fucking plat plus that's what we call ourselves right even grandmasters i hate the world tour jerk off session of every time a rank resets in any game everyone hops on they play fucking two games cement their rank and then they don't leave for seven months yeah i hate it i hate it i hate it please will you guys please erase in mid please he keeps denying my push i want his pussy so bad i'm just busy oh my god he said no i'm busy scared i was a random kid who's scared how are you gonna be in all that and not pull up i'm busy they're actually convincing me right now yeah i i eventually will do it i just can't do it because i got shut up i got shit coming up can i ask you something did nothing consider okay by the way the way this leaked i played valor for the first time in years oh my god which is honestly really funny stream i i load into a group it's a four stack of people who are only speaking chinese and like at innocent pre-round they are speaking chinese to each other oh exactly and i'm like oh okay i was like hey guys hate to be that guy for the purpose of this game do you guys know english which is kind of an ironic or a redundant question because if they didn't but i think you know you get the point across and then this sounds like a teenage girl just goes yes dude we're not stupid my fault and then i said if they want to talk to me they will talk to me and that's okay and then they're like 10 year i think they're all it had to be like a family or something because there was like a 10 year old in the stack and he's just laughing literally laughing and just going and i drop a gun because i wanted to peek with a scout and then pick up my vandal on cap and i i my vandal is just in tree and i drop and i'm ready for you the phoenix the 10 year old comes up steals my gun sells his and just laughs at me oh my god i was like no i was gonna use i was gonna peek and then use that gun and he just keeps laughing at me and then and then the round starts and i say six seven and i miss my shot oh my god so so this is kind of what i'm saying is do it this is limit testing i'm streaming and tim tim 64 comes into my chat doesn't work tim 64 comes into my chat and he says which is crazy because i think it was the moment it happened what a fucking narc tim is because tim loves the league era because he was streaming my offline league games and raking it in as a streamer bro he's got like a thousand ccv and so i'm i'm in there and tim just leaves a message and it's a one he's never sent he's like just wants you to know ludwig just said in real life that you would lose to him in a race to gold by the way closing stream after this so you'll never i'll never hear what you're about to say after this and i don't care goodbye that is so funny he's not a genius he didn't have a drop of wine he yeah he's not a genius here's why because after it i said oh wow interesting message tim i just want to say that you're it's a pleasure to have you in the chat and i'll see you in the next one the chat all the time and you're a really special person in my life you know what he said the next day i appreciate what you said about me in the chat that's dude great i think you can watch it i know you're playing valentine because aiden fucking aiden pissed me off this trip oh it sounds like he's a real fucking thorn in your side yes denim to denim what did he do bro so first i'll just start i'll just start for starters very beginning of the trip we get to the fucking airport and and he's he's being fucking annoying because i wanted to win the million dollars from the mr beast book and they had a mr beast book stand out and i was trying to film a video with him to send a mr beast but he wasn't playing along he wasn't playing nice why weren't you playing nice he wasn't playing nice with me it's a dream to have a video of me sent to mr beast i know bro and i had him next to it and it was like he was at fucking gunpoint i'll send you the video zipper it was like he was at goddamn gunpoint why do you now he's got an attitude all of a sudden and well i'll tell you why he's got an attitude because then we sit down and we're we're we're going the plane's delayed so he opens up his laptop you know what he does on his laptop guess what he does oh my god he uses iMessage a lot what does he do on his laptop you couldn't guess in a billion years it's the most insane thing okay i'm gonna guess uh-huh he plays a game of go yeah he he does i like that guess but it is not correct but i like that yeah and i like it because it's accurate and infuriating to imagine you playing go on your laptop waiting for a delayed plane first and then the video after it was a great game he sits down he whips out his laptop and he opens up chase bank okay and he starts pulling up his account net worth it's in this picture here's a picture in the app and he starts copying the amount of money in the bank account and let me tell you bro it's flush of course it is and he's flexing on him because he's got no privacy screen protector he just flexed on everybody bro you were sitting and everybody yeah the phone's on military time yeah okay it's like i've been ready i'm letting you get 2100 yeah it's clean six figs he's making high level trades he's sending people the amount of money in his account i'm pissing you off with that yes bro because you're low-key flexing on me i'm not flexing on you you have millions of dollars in your bank account you want to know the exact amount that you have in your personal checking right now it's millions it's fun well it's not the exact amount but it is funny to imagine that ludwig might be mad at this because he doesn't know how to log into his chase account because i don't even know what a bank account is right i don't know what i'm chasing i'm just trying to get on his level yeah and that's not even my bank account yeah it's the ls one the ls bank account it okay trying to do my job over a million dollars in that account there's over a million yep there's over a million and he's withdrawing it all to his personal i don't know why wow i don't know why he said it was for business i don't know man you should buy a bugatti actually why else was i pissing you off this trip leave another thing is that how i guess you don't know what is important let's see let us judge yes get take a picture with jimmy did you turn up getting closer getting closer not afraid oh he does not want to do this you could win a million dollars mr peace what mr b i love your book i love jimmy i loved your book jimmy i loved your book what'd you like about it what'd you like about it read it get closer i liked i liked your grit in the book please give us a million dollars he's trying to walk away he's so done dude and that's a million dollars and i get i and now i realize why he didn't give a about the millie because he pulled out a millie from because he already had a really pocket because he already had care about a millie when you got a millie because we're walking through the airport and let me let me keeps yelling like six feet behind me and i think i kept thinking it's like it'd be funny if i'm like his his upset son who's embarrassed by his dad at the airport today he does that is a good that it does is how it feels when ludwig's around you're like dad shut the up and i do this to people as well sometimes i'm the dad josh man mostly i torture him then we get on the plane he starts raw dogging he's raw dog what does that mean he raw dog for like a good 15 minutes i don't know what the what did you think about during the raw dog i'm thinking about i sent the picture of the raw dog how i got a picture of the raw dog too yeah i don't really were documenting i was documenting it i was like this guy's a fucking nat geo animal why were you why were you on nat geo mode for that and somehow i'm pissing you on that is a clean raw dog i love when he does this this is my favorite aid and take okay hold on let's analyze so one drink in hand he's holding on to it that is there's a part of your brain that must oh no that's it that's a naked juice green monster naked juice like 50 grams of sugar i didn't tell him how much sugar he was because he didn't want to get it essentially a soda he wanted to get an immunity boost but they ran out but yeah he's not even his eye his eyeline he's not even looking at his own screen he is trying to avoid any stimuli anything that might remind him of a phone or a chinese device that he loves yep he's fully he's covering his mouth he is because he's like i don't even want to speak i love what he does i don't want to speak or be spoken to if i was aiden's partner life partner romantic life partner this would be my favorite thing about him is just waiting for him to do this by himself and he doesn't think about it i'm looking and i think look how cute it's my favorite thing you do the dichotomy is crazy because then you because then you see in the background someone who's just locked into their phone can't even look away zombie forward too right like it's such a beautiful bad posture hunt and then aiden the chad raw dog the chad the plain raw dogger no here's the thing if he was chad that screen would be off bitch he would turn the screen off but i think it's more chad to have it on and look away yeah i don't even need to look at it i don't even need to turn it off because it's even on in front of me i am okay with temptation that i may not act on because the lion does not need to always act he can sometimes observe do you guys ever feel like like a passenger in your own life just watching what other people have to say about it do you ever feel that way no no it's never come up for me it's weird because it's been happening a lot like on the show and off the show to who it's just a feeling i've had oh you know this oh i spent 20k on this dog oh yeah well serious unfortunately you just can't see too much money on this trip so we had a challenge oh my god we didn't do it today we didn't do it yeah i was kind of expecting it do we spoil no i mean we should we need to do i mean we could spoil what the challenge is we just we already talked about it so the on the company retreat the idea is like you know this is a team building everybody's there together let's do something fun we have this like scavenger hunt of sorts we even are a set of tasks for three teams of five people that they do around the town the main things that each group has to do is five it's called the penance of slime so for all of the terrorism committed in the office over the years uh each team gets to pick out an outfit that slime will wear on the podcast uh of of our choice and we'll pick it as a group from what we we source between everybody and uh the question was asked and i mean i made a mistake uh what's the budget and i said you know what no no budget no budget full of it keep it reasonable and uh and just just think about it it's supposed to be a funny outfit for slime you know we come back the outfits are chosen we are we're all sitting in a circle in the living room we're having a nice time we're making jokes the last thing we do is a fashion show of the outfits where each team captain who modeled there's captains themselves me me aiden and nick i'm going to be the captain of the outfits nick yingo and and and cam actually modeled oh yeah candidates but so so each person there's one person in charge of the budget or like spending money on the stuff you buy for the scavenger hunt and that's me ludwig and yingo the people with company cards and i thought our group got a little overzealous we're in this car we're in carmel by the sea this very expensive town with a bunch of rich old people is that the same as cake by the ocean i'm not making a joke new it's their cousins yeah yeah a lot of the clothes in this town are really expensive and we end up deciding to buy this this one item that i don't want to spoil yet and it's 350 it's pretty expensive and i'm like you know what we're probably going to spend the most out of everybody if we buy this item but i think this whole fit as like a selection is really funny and the whole team really wants to buy it we'll lock it in then we shared the budgets at the end of this you i spent a little more you i spent i spent around maybe 8 50 and then because because you're allowed because because there's a lot of pieces in our outfit because we had we had sunglasses we had uh we had a oh i we had we like it's like a six piece a six piece outfit and i'm like this is perfect this is perfect probably the most we'll ever spend boss man spent more than me so now i can't be in trouble of course boss man doubled my budget that helps a lot i'm in the i'm in the green camp walks out you really yingo yeah this is yingo's fucking job cam is wearing the outfit yeah walks out in front of everybody and everybody's like wait this is just an incredible outfit like you didn't this isn't really the prompt and then and then we look at the whole thing and everybody's like how much did you guys spend on this outfit and you you know they spent two grand on this outfit they spent two thousand dollars sun barrel to my head for buying a sibian and i'm and i'm looking at ludwig i'm looking at ludwig like say something too late now too late now too late and and here's the thing is cam thinks he's getting a piece of the outfit he's not he's not that's right you yeah i think that was the thing is like cam he had this idea that that slime's gonna wear and then i'll get out no no slime gets to keep all of it and do what he pleases i might burn it in front of everyone he might put it in the dumpster i think their group just decided what if we bought a really nice outfit for cam and to be honest it would look great on like you'll look great i think it's a good outfit because it juxtaposes maybe the other outfits because it's just like it's just a different look that would be cool to see on you it's like one a week for a while or how are we yeah i so we could i i was thinking you you do a couple costume changes oh like we do like a episode where he goes into the closet it was like the the uh trash taste episode we did where we kept switching out timer every 10 minutes a new outfit how many outfits are there gart three gart what do you think every 20 minutes every 30 okay hold on a sec uh hold on just hold your horses now if i do this am i now forgiven yeah yeah you're forgiven for a year you paid your rent a year well presuming you keep the same behavior up yeah let me tell you this for you guys everyone besides like three people in this office are in love with me yeah that's enough though if one person in the office didn't like you people who work here don't are unhappy with you they're not even unhappy with me they just have a reason to be angry that's what i'm saying so that's what i'm saying it's like it's not about like hitting majority here you know what i'm saying it's like everyone in the office is in love with me okay 100 they love me but but hypothetically one guy one guy farted on the back of his head that one time one guy is addicted to a dead game and one time i farted into his mouth one time right in the background of a nintendo call and i have to wear i don't know it's nintendo and he didn't have his on-air thing on it's just it's just not it's just not his fault it's just not his fault then why have the on-air thing kelby could be wearing a t-shirt that says please fart in my mouth i think it's still probably not why i don't even think we have them yet i mean we got the on-air things because of that incident if that's the case then this was literally two years ago and you guys holding on to that is bad for your mind i'm not holding on to it i'm just saying that the penance is deserved it's about my mental health i said i think it's another episode where a guy was like because there are people that just genuinely hate some of us on the pod right and they'll watch every single episode and they'll be like bitch about one single person we all kind of have these guys i think i have a couple more but this one guy was so upset with me because he he wanted me to get fired because he said it was a workplace violation that i may have farted into kelby's mouth because he genuinely thought that i did that and then at the second paragraph he said even if he didn't do that joking about that is also not okay and i'm like you're listening to podcast comedy podcast what do you want what do you want us to talk about what anyway i just keep thinking about that guy because i want him to believe that i farted in kelby's mouth so i will make it true this is like there was a guy on atriox subreddit who confessed he hated me because he heard atriox talking about how i played counter-strike at the office yes and he confessed and he was like i hate you because i am he he admitted it too he said it explicitly he's like i imagine you playing counter-strike at the office eight hours a day and i hate you for it and i was like that's crazy man that's crazy we should have someone do all the research of like every time reddit or youtube comments has like complained about the show and then designed from it like the ideal episode of counter-strike at the office and i was like that's crazy man that's crazy episode oh my god for the listener and then we can we can perform the ideal episode dude it's giving him too much because i don't i don't know like you're saying we all have some i don't know one well yeah because you don't read comments you don't care but it's fine it's better not to care i do though and sometimes it's interesting enough people like it a lot yeah yeah they're having such a good time most people like it a lot every time i learn there's a viewer who hates me it is delivered to me by slime on a plate he goes look at what this guy said he said i'm like i would have missed it not not to hurt him or something i'm just like look at how cool this guy is crazy they sit down. and it's not a lot of people it's always a minority meaning less it's always a minority a fewer number and I look into their background I see who they are, I see where they're from dude I've been downloading fucking apps recently how are the apps? you got tech, maybe gear you got some gizmos he was saying he just scrolls rocket money and not an ad but he's just trying to get out of the vortex not hashtag ad but I have been scrolling rocket money just to see all sorts of things I want to see what your rocket money looks like, your fucked up rocket money page I spend a lot of money on my credit card this one's been pretty cool it's called Meowdoku if you play for 30 minutes you'll sleep better there's a cat and a hamster wheel it's the number one game on the app store for casuals if you look at your phone before bed you'll sleep better if you play you can play Meowdoku I guess and then I got a couple more I got Substack you're reading on Substack Substack turns out to be really racist people on there really? yeah a lot of really racist and I think it's like what you make of it, who you follow but when you just get the app isn't it an algorithm? I just got the app I just got the app, I'm browsing the app your default Substack profile as you load into the game level 1 starting zone is when that's racist, right? they see the name they see Ludwig Ogren I think that's it and then they're like well, he probably do you like this Ludwig Ogren? is this when you scroll on apps? dude, I've been on this app recently I basically just like stare at this what the hell? I just stared at this for like an hour and I don't even remember the hour passed and do you feel like good? if let me try oh he looks serene, I'll say that oh *laughs* I feel better I think he likes it *laughs* suck it you know what welcome back *laughs* you guys ready to start? you know what I want *laughs* what do you want, dude? you know what I want from you? *laughs* because I I you guys you did these league races we got all these games that we're good at yup I think I want to see what it would be like for you to play Mogi Lounge really? how long it would take you guys to get good at competitive Mario Kart Wii I was like what is Mogi Lounge? they changed it, right? *laughs* uh they have a little release recently, they didn't change Lounge I thought they did have a big update and I straight up think I'd be the fucking truth, man you might be I think I'd figure it out not fast, not immediately but I think I'd get there I think I have potential I do think Nick has like a genetic racial passive to Nintendo Mario and Warcraft Mario and Mario Party games to Nintendo games yeah like your World of Warcraft like race has an ability like orcs can be stunned for less time you're better at Nintendo games Nintendo games I was gonna say when Yoshi in the when Waluigi in the game I'd do better at games when Waluigi in the game he's good he's good Waluigi number one wait so but what is it? they have like Mario Kart Wii decompiled or something yeah so they released like the a PC native version of the game so oh wow the the this mod called Retro Rewind got really popular because uh largely I would say because you can play it on Dolphin in the previous popular mod you had to have a Wii and a disc to play it which is an intentional decision by that developer because it makes it really hard to hack and also his theory is that if you don't need a ROM for the mod Nintendo's less likely to take you down of course probably true and given how long it's been around I would argue there's merit to his argument yeah uh and that they don't throw tournaments which is probably the bigger reason yeah and and well but like Pokemon ROM things and stuff get taken down all the time yes or like other like Nintendo mod projects get taken down so why is this like videos using it get taken down why is this is the Pokemon stuff is that is Pokemon Company still separate Pokemon Company is separate so it's it's it's tough partially so it's one third owned by Nintendo but is it pursued by Pokemon Company usually yeah okay good on them for holding strong for that long but other Nintendo ROM stuff yeah other Nintendo ROM stuff gets taken down and this mod for Mario Kart Wii has been CTGP was super super popular so why is it survived yeah it's like it could be because of this and then the competitive scene uses it because the anti-cheat it's really difficult to hack and cheating in the game used to be a huge huge problem yeah but now the more popular more casual way of playing on dolphin became more popular than the competitive mod so it kind of like split the scene so unless you're playing like it's kind of like needing to download face it actually it's like there's a smaller pool of competitive players that are willing to like download face it and go play and then and that's CTGP but now instead of this like dolphin way of running the game they have a fully native version on PC that's been released so it's going to be easier to like add mods to the game you can run it at like 120 or 180 FPS if you want to probably easier to hack but it's also easier to hack there are cheaters and they have like a really active moderation team which like Nintendo never had for the actual servers right yeah but it still needs to be a moderation team versus like just not being able to cheat at all yeah you have to have it staffed yeah but it's out out already it's the beta is out I guess it's a beta you know what I'm surprised by in Counter-Strike is how come like okay maybe anti-cheat is hard without going kernel level maybe Valve just can't figure it out I don't know what the fucking problem is why cheating is always so bad they've never done anything about it I think it just has to be kernel but why do they not moderate the leaderboard yeah they just don't care they just let the top like 100 of the leaderboard all be cheaters it's crazy this is exactly like how Mario because Mario Kart Wii had built in time trial leaderboards right and I remember booting them up as a kid and you'd like I want to see the Toads factory world record and then the first four times are like 0 minutes 0 seconds 0.3 milliseconds the name of the thing is Taz Police yeah like and it's like we all know it's not real the replay doesn't load when you download it what a sobering moment as a little kid to be like ah the wonder of the world who's the best oop it's just it's probably some whack-a-mole shit where it's like they but surely I know what you're gonna say but like infinite whack-a-mole surely someone's job at Valve all the people that are doing fucking nothing could be hey at 8am I show up and I delete the top 50 people on the leaderboard I am because dude like the Call of Duty leaderboard forever was just okay the first 5,000 people their kills are a negative number and there's an E in it I don't think they killed E players it's like a Bellatro score maybe we just get rid of that one but what if we just got rid of it you don't have to ban the player just take them off the leaderboard just have a true leaderboard so the incentive to cheat to get on the leaderboard disappears I imagine it makes more cheaters because you're like oh I want to be number one on the global leaderboard that's kind of funny my name would be on everyone's screens the big question is you are coming you are arriving to this idea right now and maybe you've thought about it before and the idea is that the people at these game companies have thought about it for longer right and yet haven't done this what is the why is that yeah that's the big question the fucking guys at Valve that won a national math competition when they were 13 years old and don't have a title and show up at the office and jerk off and make $600,000 a year they the thing is they're incredibly smart they're incredibly smart you put the desk car on wheels dude it came in as a salad bar and they and I feel like one of them could be deleting the guys at the top of the leaderboard I feel like that but hey at Valve if you don't want to work on it you don't have to you get on the yacht and you eat the salad bar and you go to Hawaii at the end of the year man what a dream right do you think when you sign that contract there you get a commitment from Gaben it's like I'll take you to the promised land when the nuclear holocaust and or AI holocaust happens you will you gotta be in his inner circle you will join me on the fleet and we will live in New Zealand forever you gotta be in his inner circle and you can't be if you've banned one cheater like yeah maybe maybe Gaben has rules for himself Gaben says don't ban any cheaters let it figure itself out he's a libertarian gamer I'm Gaben I wear sweatpants when I present the international that's why cause I don't care cause I fucking don't fucking care if you have a billion dollars fucking kill yourself I'm Gaben can you let the n-word fly in Dota like you do in CS is it the same Zipper says yeah that's a great place to go to the Patreon another place where we let the n-word fly oh my god that's the dog I bought for 20k anyway it's gonna be delivered to the office soon I have to take a crazy dump I have to take a crazy dump why did you buy that see you in the Patreon 20 thousand dollars like wait that is amazing I really do like it I love it I really do like it guys we'll see you in the Patreon episode we'll see you there and there'll be more stuff like this there why did you do that